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Can't catch a break : gender, jail, drugs and the limits of personal responsibility / / Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk



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Autore: Sered Susan Starr Visualizza persona
Titolo: Can't catch a break : gender, jail, drugs and the limits of personal responsibility / / Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
Disciplina: 362.83/70974461
Soggetto topico: Abused women - Massachusetts - Boston - Social conditions
Female offenders - Massachusetts - Boston - Social conditions
Women drug addicts - Massachusetts - Boston - Social conditions
Responsibility - Social aspects - Massachusetts - Boston
Soggetto non controllato: american prison system
american studies
bad choices
boston
civic
class and gender
criminalization
cultural studies
day to day lives
discrimination
discriminatory politics
drug abuse
drugs
gender studies
human condition
incarceration
ineffective programs
local and federal government
mass incarceration
personal flaws
personal responsibility
prison system
prison
sexual abuse
social inequality
social programs
therapeutic programs
urban sociology
violence in society
violent communities
welfare
women
Persona (resp. second.): Norton-HawkMaureen
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Joey Spit on Me": How Gender Inequality and Sexual Violence Make Women Sick -- 2. "Nowhere to Go": Poverty, Homelessness, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility -- 3. "The Little Rock of the North": Race, Gender, Class, and the Consequences of Mass Incarceration -- 4. Suffer the Women: Pain and Perfection in a Medicalized World -- 5. "It's All in My Head": Suffering, PTSD, and the Triumph of the Therapeutic -- 6. Higher Powers: The Unholy Alliance of Religion, Self-Help Ideology, and the State -- 7. "Suffer the Children": Fostering the Caste of the Ill and Afflicted -- 8. Gender, Drugs, and Jail: "A System Designed for Us to Fail" -- Conclusion: The Real Questions and a Blueprint for Moving Forward -- Appendix: Methodology and Project Participant Overview -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can't Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and a broad cultural consensus that views suffering as a consequence of personal flaws and bad choices. Combining hard-hitting policy analysis with an intimate account of how marginalized women navigate an unforgiving world, Susan Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk shine new light on the deep and complex connections between suffering and social inequality.
Titolo autorizzato: Can't catch a break  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95870-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811889703321
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